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New centre to develop cancer treatments
Sophie Goodchild, Health and Social Affairs Correspondent14 Oct 2009
London's first specialist centre for patients with hard-to-treat cancers opened today.
The UCL Cancer Research UK Centre will focus on new treatments such as gene therapy and drug development.
It brings together experts from University College London Hospital, Great Ormond Street, the Royal Free Hampstead and Moorfields Eye Hospital as well as the London School of Pharmacy and Cancer Research UK.
They will focus on cancers which have poor long term survival rates. Professor David Linch, director of the unit, said the aim was to create a centre which would be a world leader in developing treatments.
Cancer Research UK already has six specialist centres in the UK. It has pledged £1million a year to the London unit.
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Very best wishes to Professor Lynch and his teams. It is so difficult to get funding for any branch of research, so a lot of hard work has gone into seeing this centre realised.
We don't know the magnitude of the work that you do until we need you. Thank you.
- Elizabeth, London, 15/10/2009 11:02
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